I really love using Toolset. It makes it easy to create really dynamic function on your site without knowing PHP. One really nice add-on they came out with a couple years ago is the Maps plugin. So, here’s what I needed to do: I had a list of restaurants and I wanted to display all… Read More

I have a client selling shirts that can be customized with a name, but WooCommerce doesn’t give you a way to add custom text to a product by default, so I gave WC Fields Factory a try. It allowed me to easily add a custom text field. Here’s how it looks on the product page:… Read More

Again, I’ve really been loving working with Toolset Types. One of the great things it lets me do is filter custom post types by various parameters. However, recently I was working on a site that had a huge list of parameters on the left sidebar and the results on the right. After I scrolled down… Read More

As you already know from my last couple of posts, I’ve been loving Toolset because it lets you filter your archive pages. But sometimes a large number of filters can get out of hand and make your page too long. That’s when it’s a good idea to collapse your filters using the Collapse-O-Matic plugin. I… Read More

I kept having the problem of my first dropdown being empty when I used Toolset filters, so I am writing down the fix here for future reference. Just add this little bit of jQueary to the JS area under the filter. jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('.wpv-filter-form select option:first').text('All locations'); }); jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('.wpv-filter-form select option:first').text('All locations');… Read More

I’ve recommended BestWebSoft Captcha in the past and now regret it after reading this article: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/12/backdoor-captcha-plugin/ Looks like BestWebSoft sold the plugin and you need to remove this plugin right away and update all your plugins. I do recommend that you have some kind of captcha on your login page for security and use at… Read More

I usually recommend removing the archives by date in the sidebar because who really searches posts by date anyway? No one says, “I wonder what they were writing about in May of 2016?” However, this client is a wedding photographer, so people might actually be looking for a friend who they knew got married at… Read More